Democracy is best defined as a government of, for, and by the people, so exercised through the representatives duly elected by those people. That seems to suggest that democracy is a very good form of government for those that believe that the people should have a real voice and a real power within that government, that they are not only members of, but have approved such as their government into its very existence. The problem though for those that are obsessed about power and money, is that a true democracy, by definition, is hard for those that are the corporate elites, in conjunction with their loyalists as well as their devoted minions to always thus to be able to mold and thereby to direct that democracy in the manner that best suits those corporate interests.
When it comes to the corporate making of profit, of money, and of power, those that have it, almost always want to have more of it, and if these top corporate executives somehow aren’t obsessively interested in such, or are poor performers in doing what so needs to be done to get that money, then they will be surely replaced by those that will not hesitate in doing so. We live in a world in which while America is still the biggest economic nation, it though represents less than 16% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). So then, corporations, the world over, recognize that the most sensible path to extract growth and the profit that comes along with such, is to deliberately and relentlessly seek profit from foreign lands and foreign peoples, of which, in order to perform such, those foreign nations must have some reasonable form of “open borders” which permits thus not only the selling of American goods to them, but also the manufacture of same within them, as so desired and directed by those corporate interests.
In short, when it comes to foreign lands, it is highly inconvenient if those lands have a strong representative government, and of which the domestic people within that land, are content with their lot in life and do not desire to be “strong-armed” by outside interests or to be exploited by same. For corporations to hear or to have to deal with such a viewpoint such as that, is anathema to them, for they want what they want, which thereby means that they have no interest in supporting or doing serious business with those foreign lands which are strongly democratic in principle, for this will typically negatively impact their profits – so that, we find instead that these corporations have a high preference for those nations that are controlled by “strongmen” that can be corrupted or convinced that what is good for America, is good for them.
So then, while America likes to pride itself as being the epitome of democracy and freedom, the truth of the matter is that the corporate interests in America, strongly prefer and will do what they so have to do to see that the foreign lands that appear to them as being the most profitable areas for their business interests, aren’t democratic at all -- because whenever power is dispersed within a given nation, it makes it far more difficult for those corporate interests to extract what they so need from such, which is why corporations hate democracy, and love dictatorial autocracy, instead.